Orr Claim

Occurrence in Inyo county in California, United States with commodity Manganese
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033475
MRDS ID M020038
Record type Site
Current site name Orr Claim
Related records 10115022

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.76532, 35.88193 (WGS84)
Relative position 40 MI. FROM SHOSHONE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Anvil Spring Canyon East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Owlshead Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Trona(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Death Valley National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 021N 001E California

Comments on the location information

  • MAY BE IN THE SAME AREA AS THE WAR BABY DEPOSIT OF WINGATE WASH. IN DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL MONUMENT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.76532, 35.88193

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: PROBABLY IS A BEDDED DEPOSIT LOW IN MANGANESE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 152 1950 P. 83

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 125 1943 P. 122

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROBABLY IS A BEDDED DEPOSIT LOW IN MANGANESE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1977 Killman, K.; Albers, J. U.S. Geological Survey REPLACING LOST LOCATION
Updater 10-NOV-1997 Oland, G. P. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey OLAND AND ORRIS MERGED RECORDS
Editor 08-MAY-1998 Mason, George U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative California resources

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